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yellowish

UK/ˈjɛləʊɪʃ//ˈjɛlɔʊɪʃ/

yellowish adjective: somewhat yellow in colour.

Adjective

yellowish (not comparable)

  1. Somewhat yellow in colour.
    • But, like more than one similar North Wales beauty-spot, there had to be (at least at the time of which I write), a quarry, or ironworks, or some kind of industrial plant, which lay perpetually under a cloud of yellowish smoke—literally a blot on the landscape.1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, pages 18-19
    • A biologist has named a newly discovered species of moth after our next president. The Neopalpa donaldtrumpi is a wee little creature found in parts of California and Baja, Mexico. […] It seems nature favors fancy golden hairdos as much as the man himself (who could forget China’s beloved Trump...2017 January 18, AJ Willingham, “New moth named in honor of Donald Trump”, in CNN, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020

yellowish meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Sanskrit

yellowish in Hindi

yellowish
कपिल kapil

yellowish in Marathi

somewhat yellow
पिवळट pivḷaṭ, पिवळसर pivaḷsar

yellowish in Urdu

زرد فام, زردی مائل

yellowish in Sanskrit

yellowish
हरित hárita
More languagesFewer languages
yellowish in Sinhala
පඬු paⁿḍu
yellowish in Assamese
হালধীয়া halodhia

Examples of yellowish in a sentence

  • Metasternum with yellowish-brown pubescence, laterally and close to metacoxae more yellowish.
  • Prosternum and prosternal process with abundant, yellowish pubescence, distinctly longer than on pronotum.
  • He held out a severely mangled hand, with clawed, yellowish nails.

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Synonyms of yellowish

Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of yellowish

Origin of yellowish

From Middle English ȝelowisch; equivalent to yellow + -ish.

Words formed from yellowish

Questions about yellowish

What does yellowish mean?
Yellowish means somewhat yellow in colour.
What is yellowish in Hindi?
Yellowish in Hindi is कपिल (kapil). See Yellowish meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is yellowish?
Yellowish is an adjective.
How do you pronounce yellowish?
Yellowish is pronounced /ˈjɛləʊɪʃ/ (UK).

Words near yellowish in the dictionary

  1. yellowing
  2. yellowing off
  3. yellowing out
  4. yellowing up
  5. yellowings
  6. yellowish
  7. yellowishly
  8. yellowishness
  9. yellowism
  10. yellowjacket
  11. yellowjackets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yellowish (page history and authors); कपिल (Hindi) (page history and authors); yellowish (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); हरित (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); පඬු (Sinhala) (page history and authors); হালধীয়া (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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